When you connect with friends you met when you were 18 and now you find yourselves as grandmothers, one never knows how it will go. How did ...

Somehow or other, October passed me by and I realized I was so blog-focused on the lake and beyond that I hadn't mentioned anything abou...

Life back home goes on, whether we are here or not. But despite missing the relaxed peace of the cottage, there is always something good abo...

There is nothing so hard for me as buttoning up the cottage and saying goodbye until next spring. Fortunately, our last couple of days broug...

The end of season walk is quieter, more contemplative, than those during the heat of summer. In the summer, many others are encountered and ...

After a few days of having a fire going in the fireplace from dawn till dusk, the cottage warmed up a bit. This was a good thing as the weat...

Given my options (and no one has) I'd rather it be rainy in the summer, when at least it is warm and not 40 degrees. Especially with day...

Signs of fall -- and no one can deny we aren't into fall -- are emerging and showing themselves on my lake walks. Early red leaves circl...

Those October visits to the lake are often bittersweet, often beautiful, and on occasion, filled with surprises. I arrived in early October,...

Apart from a Cork Poppers gathering (post on that coming soon -- we tasted some great Spanish reds) life has been mostly odds and ends -- ap...

I hope you are in the mood for big birds and creatures because we're off to an amazing day at the Ditch! So, settle back, have a seat o...

There's something about fall that calls for a road trip. And even though it wasn't what I call "full fall" (in fact, it ha...

Sometimes there isn't a lot of new to share, especially since I'm trying to lay a little low these days. So I figured I'd look b...

Well, we can't say we aren't well into September, only a few days from "official" fall. Time is flying and I'm -- not!...

I feel half-in, half-out these days. Home most of the time but still anticipating weekends or even a few extra days at the lake. I find it o...

For weeks I thought August was a slow reading month. Too much computer time? But somehow I finished seven books and they were all good ones....

Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September When the autumn weather turns the leav...

Recently, in the New York Times, Melissa Kirsch shared some thoughts on the end of summer saying "We're in the down elevator....

The walks at the end of summer are a bit bittersweet in many ways. It's the same path I walk throughout the summer and it rarely seems t...

Home alone (at the lake) for a bit. It has its pluses and minuses. First thing on the plus side, I captured Lizzie unaware and so an early d...

About a week ago, I dropped off Rick and his bike about an hour or so past home to give him a head start on his ride last week. It was a gre...

Stepping back in time for a minute, I was home for a few days when I took Nancy back down state to head back to Colorado. Of course I had to...

"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky!"      ~~~  Oscar Hammerstei...

Summer is moving so quickly -- too quickly for me. It seems we got a late start. Well, a funky start, at best. It got very hot too early; th...

What do you do on a beautiful day in the north? A road trip is always a good idea! Rick and I decided to head north to Sault Saint Marie, Mi...

I had hoped to have a few more (at least one more) book to share with you this month -- but then I started having fun and something had to g...

Once upon a time, a family with a three year-old only child moved next door to a family of five with a two year-old daughter. The girls beca...

Rick celebrated another circle (or cycle!) around the sun this past week. I'm a firm believer in celebrating birthdays -- sometimes it t...

Lake life continues to move at a slow and gentle pace. Lovely sunsets, (almost) daily walks (the rain is a factor) and sometimes even a cele...

Well, here in the last postcard I was talking about our mostly lovely weather and that it was warm. Then the rain came and cooled it off. Bu...